Oh ok. He posted a video of them too on fb. He must be really good at AI to have done the videos
Also, if that’s a roughly 20 or 40 gal grow bag, I guess these are plum-sized blueberries? Haha
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ha… i will PM you here in a few. I think this guy does stuff differently than we do but it is interesting to me. Im trying to figure out his persimmons too… he is in India so im sure that they do stuff differently.
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Last i checked, India gets this massive heatwaves in the summer that likes to take out it’s people 
Those all look young. I’m curious to see how they are in a few years.
I’m consolidating all my blueberry plants into the front this week to see how many I’ve acquired… will post an update sometime
From yard collected!
The oldest ones are in 25 gallon nursery pots. I’m too short to reach the tops of these without a stepping stool
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I see some bare pavement.
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i have more in the back. Also i don’t want them all touching lol. They like to have their own space as well
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That’s so nice!!! I share a yard with all my siblings so I can’t get too many plants but I am hoping soon we move and I’ll be able to plant my bushes in ground, and collect more varieties. I am fairly sure the bushes that are struggling or seem to have no life are a me issue, it looks like either I didn’t use enough dirt or the neighborhood wild life dug in the pots.
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I’m picking your brain for berry info lately lol
I’ve killed every blueberry I’ve tried here. so they just hate the heat? are there any productive ones that like full sun, hot summer, very cold winter?
I would love to grow some. I have a few big containers they could go in and everything, but they’d be up by the house front where there’s maybe more sun than they like. I previously tried them in midday sun only area. they died during high summer
I’m in WA so getting them sent here- it’s hard to find any that can be shipped here. not certain why but I’m sure there’s reason. so variety access might be difficult unless I can find a local supplier
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Not sure about the heat but I’ve grown these in full shade in the past and they ripened later but grew well. When it hit 100+ in Seatac a few years back, they had to be shaded and watered with a saucer under them. In the summertime, i have to put them in saucers or I’ll be watering them twice a day for the 25 gallon plants. The saucer goes away in the fall when the rain comes.
Blueberries are prohibited from shipment here unless you have a special permit or unless they’re grown/propagated here in the PNW and that includes Oregon, Idaho and another state i believe. It’s due to the fact that we have many blueberry farms and to prevent blueberry scorch virus. Ours here in the pnw seem to have a lot less issues than the ones I’ve seen in the south and east coast.
i love my blewbs lol. Was going to use that name but i saw someone already called themselves that and so i decided to go with how my name sounds sometimes.
G&b acid planting mix is your friend. Also if you have hard water, it can turn the soil and soil within your pots alkaline so you gotta watch out for that. If you are a lot of water build up on your potting soil, you have hard water.
You can bury logs under the blueberries to help keep them acidic if you plant in ground. That’s where some of my fallen trees are going.
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think I’ll maybe try a few. the local nursery store here has some. I will try shade- they fried in the summer here, in sun. and will do the acidic stuff with pine straw and logs maybe, I do have those in plenty!
my partner will be happy. he picked out the ones that got sun burnt lol
now to find a place with shade where they can live…
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I wouldn’t do logs in pots, just the soil. Never tried logs in pots so i couldn’t tell you how it’ll turn out for that one. In ground, yes to the logs.
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pine straw it is then for the mulch. thanks for the heads up
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If your pots are the black plastic ones,they could be painted white or foil attached to the outsides.
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I have a question after hearing someone mention nitrates are toxic to blueberries. Would planting them in a spot with a lot of composted manure toast them? The spot is very fertile and weeds grow incredibly well there.
Not sure but I’ll throw compost on my blewbs here and there
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Composted manure has an average pH of 6.8 to 8.5.So,it may not be an ideal place to plant Blueberries.
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I would have thought it would be acidic, because I feel like manure eats any concrete it comes into contact with, maybe it’s just cattle traffic wears it away.
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Some of the branche son my blueberries are nothing but fruit, with maybe a small leaf shoot somewhere on the cluster. The berries on these branches seem smaller than other berries on the plants, possibly just behind and less mature. Does anyone ever thing branches like this or snip out an entire branch in favor of branches that have more leaves. My berries aren’t fully mature and I don’t want them to overbear and stunt of slow the bushes. I know with apples and pears there is some ratio of the number of leaves you should have to feed each piece of fruit on a branch, so is there anything like that with blueberries?
Then again I don’t want to give up all those berries if they aren’t really an issue.
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